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Offline rangerrebew

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Salon.com: ‘Will climate change bring an end to America’s world order?’ –  ‘Humanity could be facing another catastrophe on the scale of the Black Death’
By Marc Morano
September 21, 2024
5:47 am

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/20/will-climate-change-bring-an-end-to-americas-world-order_partner/

By Alfred W. McCoy,  the Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.His new book is “To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change.”

Excerpt: The question of the moment should be: Is climate change now gathering sufficient destructive force to cripple Washington’s liberal world order and create an opening for Beijing’s decidedly illiberal one or possibly even a new world in which such orders will be unrecognizable? …

Looking back over the last millennium, old orders die and new ones arise when a cataclysm, marked by mass death or a maelstrom of destruction, coincides with some slower yet sweeping social transformation. Since the age of European exploration started in the 15th century, some 90 empires, large and small, have come and gone. In those same centuries, however, there have been only three major world orders — the Iberian age (1494-1805), the British imperial era (1815-1914) and the Washington world system (1945-2025).

https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/09/21/salon-com-will-climate-change-bring-an-end-to-americas-world-order-humanity-could-be-facing-another-catastrophe-on-the-scale-of-the-black-death/
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Title and premise:
"Salon.com: ‘Will climate change bring an end to America’s world order?’"

No.
Of course not.

But what WILL "bring an end" to America's "world order" is DEMOGRAPHIC change.
Happening now, near you.

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:facepalm2:

The Earth is still in the tail end of an ice age.  It's supposed to be warming.